Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...individual on campus is one of 6400, faced with a mass of choices--choices of friends, roommates, houses, courses and activities. Those decisions would be daunting in a homogeneous society. Toss in diversity, and they're that much harder to make...
Some artists don't seem to belong in the show at all, or only do so by force of custom. It's a toss-up whether you want to see George Segal's once white, now gray, plaster-cast figures in relation to mass culture; today they seem even more attached to solitude and individual grittiness than they did in the '60s, sculptural materializations of the urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have...
...might go beyond that. Because Dodgers general manager Fred Claire called "heads" in a coin flip last month, Los Angeles won the toss and the right to host a one-game playoff Monday night. That, too, will...
...religious schools from participating in Choice experiments would automatically toss out Roman Catholic parochial schools -- the often successful large-scale competitor to troubled inner-city public schools. As political scientist Chubb, one of the authors of the Brookings plan, says, "We would insist that if there is genuine Choice, there has to be genuine competition. If there is competition, there must be alternative providers other than the existing public schools...
...getting increasingly ugly. Last week a policeman was killed in a shoot-out with a Serb barricaded in a house with his wife in the city of Osijek. The Serb was also killed, and his wife lost an arm while trying to pick up a police grenade and toss it back...